Posted on 09/17/2022 2:29:08 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Two years ago, as violent protests shook Asheville and other cities after George Floyd was murdered while in Minneapolis police custody, the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Commission passed resolutions in support of reparations for Black residents, to make amends for historic discrimination. Acting at the same time, California established a task force to study and develop a plan for reparations in that state.
Last week, the task force overseeing California’s reparations effort released the first part of its work: a landmark 500-page report documenting nearly two centuries of systemic discrimination imposed by the state, the harm it caused, and what needs to be done to attempt to address that harm.
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So affirmative-action bureaucrats are going to take money away from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who were never slaves in the name of “reparations” for slavery.
After skimming off a healthy chunk for themselves, of course.
When was Calif made a state???
That is the name of the game. Skim from the wealthy.
Nearly two centuries of systemic historic discrimination in the state of California?
California became a state in 1850. California was not a slave state. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and similar state legislation in California, outlawed discrimination. I’m having trouble with the timeline to get to 200 years of systemic discrimination in California.
California became a state in 1850.
Calif report is PURE FICTION.
“Skim from the wealthy.”
Skim from the middle class.
None of these reports or plans will see the light of day, the courts will eventually shut these ideas down, even if it has to go up to SCOTUS, there is no way you can tax groups based on race
The White liberal guilt hand wringing of Rust belt transplants.
In 2022, a Blacks make up maybe 10% of western North Carolina, but a Black person is more likely to be killed by another black person, than someone from anothe race (the other 90%).
Must be the “racisim”.
1850.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
“Interim government: 1846–1850
From mid-1846 to December, 1849, California was run by the U.S. military; local government continued to be run by alcaldes (mayors) in most places, but now some were Americans. Bennett C. Riley, the last military governor, called a constitutional convention to meet in Monterey in September 1849. Its 48 delegates were mostly pre-1846 American settlers; eight were Californians. They unanimously outlawed slavery and set up a state government that operated for nearly 8 months before California was given official statehood by Congress on September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850.[62]
After Monterey, the state capital was variously San Jose (1850–1851), Vallejo (1852–1853) and Benicia (1853–1854), until Sacramento was finally selected in 1854.
Early separatist movements
Californians (dissatisfied with inequitable taxes and land laws) and pro-slavery Southerners in lightly-populated rural areas of Southern California attempted three times in the 1850s to achieve a separate statehood or territorial status separate from Northern California. The last attempt, the Pico Act of 1859, was passed by the California State Legislature, signed by the state governor, approved overwhelmingly by voters in the proposed “Territory of Colorado” and sent to Washington, D.C., with a strong advocate in Senator Milton Latham. The secession crisis in 1860 led to the proposal never coming to a vote.[63][64]
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California Genocide (1846–1871)
The California genocide consisted of actions taken by the United States in the 19th century, following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, that resulted in the dramatic decrease of the indigenous population of California. Between 1849 and 1870 it is estimated that American colonists murdered some 9,500 California Natives, and acts of enslavement, kidnapping, rape, child separation and displacement were widespread, encouraged, carried out by and tolerated by state authorities and militias.
Mariposa War (1850–1851)
The gold rush increased pressure on the Native Americans of California, because miners forced Native Americans off their gold-rich lands. Many were pressed into service in the mines; others had their villages raided by the army and volunteer militia. Some Native American tribes fought back, beginning with the Ahwahnechees and the Chowchilla in the Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley leading a raid on the Fresno River post of James D. Savage, in December 1850. In retaliation Mariposa County Sheriff James Burney led local militia in an indecisive clash with the natives on January 11, 1851 on a mountainside near present-day Oakhurst, California.
Mendocino War (1859–1860)
Following the Round Valley Settler Massacres from 1856–1859, the Mendocino War was the genocide of the Yuki (mainly Yuki tribes) between July 1859 to January 18, 1860 by white settlers in Mendocino County, California. It was caused by settler intrusion and slave raids on native lands and subsequent native retaliation, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of natives. In 1859, a band of locally sponsored rangers led by Walter S. Jarboe, called the Eel River Rangers, raided the countryside in an effort to remove natives from settler territory and move them onto the Nome Cult Farm, an area near the Mendocino Indian Reservation. The genocide killed at least 283 Indian men and countless women and children in 23 engagements over the course of six months. They were reimbursed by the U.S. government for their campaign.”
Pre-admission government outlawed slavery. Attempt to introduce slavery in Southern California died when the U.S. Civil War broke out.
So blacks were never legally slaves in California and the institution was never officially established. (This is not to say they were not mistreated or discriminated against.)
On the other hand, it appears there was an active campaign to kill Native Americans/Indians conducted by the state of California (or its deputized representatives). Any discussion of reparations for them or their descendants?
Georgie Pooh wasn’t “murdered” A-Hole
He died by an overdose
Kangaroo verdicts don’t count
Currently Asheville is undergoing a real crime wave as they also defunded their police. Remember the Vanderbilt mansion and associated extreme high end developed homes on the former Vanderbilt Biltmore estate are there— they will not tolerate this reparations crap, and this is put out by whacked out “wokists”.
How odd that poor white mountain heritage people are IGNORED by these liberal guilt ridden morons. The mountain people were displaced by the Tennessee Valley Authority by mr. major demonrat hisself— F.D.R. Entire mountains legally owned by these mountain folk— stolen in “progress” of the liberal dems. Eminent domain used to steal the ground from under already poor people. And... lest we forget obamaumao tried to “privatize” the TVA so it could be SOLD to his woke corporatist/globalist pals. Truth be known.
The should give reparations for gentrification. That’s what killed a thriving black community.
That’s what happened in Pittsburgh i the 1950’s under Democrat mayor David Lawerence when the Lower Bill District was razed in order to build a new stadium. A lot of historic, vibrant Black businesses were destroyed. Stadium is gone now, but the businesses never came back.
Pittsburgh keeps electing Democrats, though and they keep destroying the city!
Hill, of Bill. Stupid autocorrect!
Hill, not Bill. Double stupid autocorrect!!
(In Martha’s Vinyard, brown people are not allowed to remain for more than 48 hours)
Ain’t nobody/Martha’s Vineyard got time for that !!!
Asheville has been overrun by the granola crowd, leftover hippies and trust fund babies from California. Some say it started with the Rainbow Family Gathering back in 1987, but I don’t know about that. New Age crystal shops, Wiccan bookstores, etc. were already popping up in Asheville and Black Mountain around that time. Anyway, it’s no surprise they want to copy the ways of their homeland back west.
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